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The Good Ol’ 39-Coit Will Keep Truckin’

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Reposted, with permission, from Tony Long’s North Beach Examiner

The 39-Coit has been saved.

Thanks to the tireless efforts of neighborhood activists and a sudden moment of lucidity from the MTA board, Telegraph Hill’s bus will live to drive another day. Not only that, but the Union Street leg of the route, which was to be lopped off in any case, will be preserved, too.

And not only that, but Muni now favors extending the line to Pier 39, something 39 advocates have been beseeching them to do for some time now. (Numerology alone would seem to favor this extension, wouldn’t it?)

The MTA board took the action Tuesday, finally acknowledging that a viable bus up to Coit Tower is the best way to reduce traffic on the hill. As part of the plan to extend the line to Pier 39, the Muni said it expects Fisherman’s Wharf merchants and the community at large to help publicize the 39-Coit to help increase the ridership.

Keeping the Union Street leg is especially good news for hill residents. Try walking up to Montgomery with a couple of bags of groceries sometime and you’ll know what I mean. Try it with a couple of balky Achilles tendons and you really know what I mean.

Anyway, I don’t get to say this often but I’ll say it now: Thanks, Muni.

More on our reaction to Tuesday’s TEP vote coming soon. — Jeff

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Infect Me Not on Muni

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San Francisco’s health department is launching a public awareness campaign called “Infect Me Not,” Chronicle’s City Insider reports. It promotes basic “healthy habits” like stay at home when you’re sick, wash your hands often, don’t share personal items, etc.

Unfortunately this public campaign doesn’t have rules specific to Muni, which I think really deserves a public health campaign of its own. If you’ve been reading our Gross section, you’d know that health department should include a “Do Not Fart or Defecate” rule, a “Avoid Spraying Toxic Fumes” rule, and a “Leave the Personal Grooming at Home” rule. I mean, at the very least, as the ladies at Muni Manners would agree, cover your mouth when you cough and please, for the love of god, use the other hand to hold the metal rail!

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Muni Brings a Little Culture to Its Routes

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This week, SFMTA announced the CultureBus (a.k.a, the 74X). The new line shuttles riders – or should i say tourists? – to different museums and cultural points across town, from Yerba Buena to the Music Concourse in Golden Gate Park. For $7, adults get to hop and ride across town from 8:40 a.m. to 5:50 p.m., at 20-minute intervals. Or, if you tote a Muni Fast Pass, get the full-day ticket for $3.

What’s good about the CultureBus? Money from riders goes back to the City and SFMTA instead of getting harpooned by the other tourist buses operating similar routes.

What’s potentially bad about it? Running a new line which no one uses, thus costing us money.

We’ll see if it works. Keep your eyes peeled for the new 74X buzzing around town, which is yellow, incidentally. I’d test it out just to visit the new Academy of Sciences which opened last weekend. But then again, I live near Golden Gate Park.

If you ride, let us know how it goes.

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